Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0: Technology, Challenges, and Applications

Blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology that consists of a growing list of records that are securely linked together using cryptography and numerous applications in every field, including healthcare. Blockchain for Healthcare 4.0: Technology, Challenges, and Applications presents an overview of the recent advances in blockchain technology which have led to new breakthroughs in the healthcare industry, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain, challenges, and prospects.

Key Features:

• Highlights blockchain applications in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries and remote healthcare.

• Discusses applications and advancement in blockchain framework to track diseases and outbreaks.

• Elaborates the role of blockchain in managing health records, tracing, and securing medical supplies.

• Focuses on efficient and secure medical data sharing through blockchain and secure cloud-based electronic health record (EHR), a system using an attribute-based cryptosystem.

• Presents techniques and methods to utilize blockchain technology for clinical studies and facilitates the transition to patient-driven interoperability.

The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of computer science and engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and information technology.

Dr. Rishabha Malviya completed B. Pharmacy from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and M. Pharmacy (Pharmaceutics) from Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow Uttar Pradesh. His PhD (Pharmacy) work was in the area of Novel formulation development techniques. He has 12 years of research experience and presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, School of Medical and Allied Sciences, Galgotias University since past 8 years. His area of interest includes formulation optimization, nanoformulation, targeted drug delivery, localized drug delivery and characterization of natural polymers as pharmaceutical excipients. He has authored more than 200 research/review papers for national/international journals of repute. He has 58 patents (19 grants, 38 published, 1 filed) and publications in reputed National and International journals with total of 191 cumulative impact factor. He has also received an Outstanding Reviewer award from Elsevier. He has authored/edited/editing 46 books (Wiley, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Springer, River Publisher, IOP publishing and OMICS publication) and authored 31 book chapters. His name has included in word’s top 2% scientist list for the year 2020 and 2021 by Elsevier BV and Stanford University. He is Reviewer/Editor/Editorial board member of more than 50 national and international journals of repute. He has invited as author for “Atlas of Science” and pharma magazine dealing with industry (B2B) “Ingredient south Asia Magazines”.

Prof. Sonali Sundram completed B. Pharm & M. Pharm (Pharmacology) from AKTU, Lucknow. She has worked as research scientist in project of ICMR in King George’s Medical University, Lucknow after that she has joined BBDNIIT and currently she is working in Galgotias university, Greater Noida. Her PhD (Pharmacy) work was in the area of Neurodegeneration and Nanoformulation. Her area of interest is neurodegeneration, clinical research, artificial intelligence. She has authored/edited/editing more than 15 books (Wiley, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, IOP publishing, Apple Academic Press/Taylor and Francis, Springer Nature and River Publisher) She has attended as well organized more than 15 national and international seminar/conferences/workshop. She has more than 8 patents national and international in her credit. She has published six SCI indexed manuscripts (cumulative impact factor: 20.71) with reputed international publishers. She has delivered oral presentation in international conferences organized in different European countries.